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VICTORIES OVER THE SUN & CAMPUS STORIES
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Architecture + WAI Architecture Think Tank, 2018

Victories Over The Sun & Campus Stories is a group exhibition with experimental student works from the College of Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The projects create visions of the future of architecture and design through stories that reimagine human relationship with the environment and society. The first part of the exhibition focuses on Victories Over The Sun, a series of narrative architectures that explore through film, drawings, images and models new radical relationships between architecture and the environment with special emphasis on the Cosmos, Oceanic Quests, Clouds, Bio Preservation and Replication and Magnetic Fields. The second part of the exhibition presents Campus Stories, with a series of projects outlining an idealized blueprint of ground occupation in order to find ways for architecture to affect directly the construction of society. Victories Over the Sun & Campus Stories include works created on a yearlong graduate design research, and third year studios led by Hyde Chairs Cruz Garcia & Nathalie Frankowski of WAI Architecture Think Tank.

The exhibition includes works by: 
Brenton Rahn, Andres Villegas, Adrian Silva, David Huismann, Caleb Goehring, Joshua Pfeifer, Jared Andrews, Marwa Al ka’abi, Hieu Nguyen, Megan Waldron, Joseph Synek, Madeline Whitted, Noah Schacher, Tyler Koraleski, Jessica Larsen, Emily Tetschner, Ben Friesen, Joshua Puppe, Joshua McCormack, Pierce Tallichet, Kylie Miller, Hilary Wiese, Holly Craig, Rebecca Alanis, Ethan Hale, Adam Heier, Katelynn Larsen, Kurt Lawler, and Nathan Sandercock

Show Sponsor: Lucky Bucket Brewing Co.
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Photos Courtesy of WAI Architecture Think Tank

About WAI Architecture Think Tank:
WAI Architecture Think Tank was co-founded by Cruz Garcia and Nathalie Frankowski in Brussels at the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis. Following seven years of practice in Beijing, where they co-founded the alternative art space Intelligentsia Gallery, they are former Visiting Teaching Fellows at The School of Architecture at Taliesin and current Hyde Chairs of Excellence in Architecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Through architectural projects, experimental publishing, pedagogical experiments and curatorial programs Garcia and Frankowski question the critical, political, social, environmental, historical and ideological imperatives of architecture in an era of pressing challenges.
 
Working across many different formats and mediums, their recent publications include the English and Chinese editions of Pure Hardcore Icons: A Manifesto on Pure Form in Architecture and their upcoming book Narrative Architecture: A Kynical Manifesto; and recent exhibitions include the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial as well as shows at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon.
 
They are contributors to alternative magazines and journals around the world including MONU Magazine on Urbanism, Arch+, CARTHA, Dolce Stil Criollo, GAM, Volume, Horizonte, and co-founding curators of Intelligentsia Gallery, an alternative space for the presentation of positions and discourses in art and architecture established in Beijing in 2014. 
www.waithinktank.com
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  • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • THE SPACE
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • SEASON 8 (2025) >
      • PICTURES OF NOTHING
    • SEASON 7 (2024) >
      • THE SILENCE OF LIGHT
      • SEASONS
      • HOME ON THE RANGE
      • DE STIJL TRANS AM
      • SITE WORK
      • FOR RICHER, FOR POORER
      • MATTER SHIFTING SHAPE
    • SEASON 6 (2023) >
      • OPEN STUDIO V
      • NEBRASKAFLAT
      • WORDS HAVE GONE TO SLEEP INSIDE...
      • EN SILENCIO
      • SHOW AND GO
      • OPEN STUDIO IV
      • POST FACADE
      • GANDZASAR AT HIGHLAND
    • SEASON 5 (2022) >
      • WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPEN
      • VENTURING MIDWEST
      • OPEN STUDIO III
      • BROKE EVEN WHEN I BET THE FIELD
      • HARMONY AND DISSONANCE
      • OPEN STUDIO II
      • THE FADE
      • SPIRALING SOLITUDE
      • IMPROVISE
      • OPEN STUDIO
    • SEASON 4 (2021) >
      • Automatic Composition
      • This Will Get Us Somewhere
      • CRUISE CONTROL
      • Off Alondra and Hickory
      • DIG
      • Unfamiliar Appearing
      • Floral Rodeo
      • Shiny Side Up
      • Expecting Snow
      • FORWARD
    • SEASON 3 (2020) >
      • EMPTY SPACES
      • Winter Saturdays are for Spring
      • A High Disregard
      • Between the Void
      • 12:38
      • Precarious as Obtained by Entreaty or Prayer
      • A Morning in Little Italy
      • Past Grounded in Nature
      • Silence and Intimacy
      • Highway Hypnosis
      • Between Nonchalant and Relaxed
      • The Fickle Crowd
      • High Peak Monocacy
      • 251,000 Trees
      • Textured Sound
      • The Room and The Landscape
      • VERNACULAR
      • MOVEMENTS
    • SEASON 2 (2019) >
      • FOUNDATION DRAWINGS
      • DANIEL IN OMAHA
      • SHED
      • Little Italy Abstracts
      • CHARRETTE
      • The Hand and The Arm
      • A Surfer's Time
      • Los Angeles Sunsets and Quiet Landscapes
      • Perspective BLUE
      • No Road Most Traveled
      • POST-NOVIS
      • Pairings
    • SEASON 1 (2017-2018) >
      • KATHY
      • Above The Silos
      • THE BLUES
      • To Be Pigeon Holed
      • The Fool's Journey
      • Wall Assembly
      • The Map and its Porcelain Goat
      • Loose Landing
      • Long Ago, Far Away
      • Victories Over The Sun & Campus Stories
      • Perspective Flood
      • Falling Vertical
      • Textured Blue
      • FLOOD
  • LECTURES
    • 2025
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  • SUPPORT
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    • MERCHANDISE
    • PUBLICATIONS
    • PICTURES OF NOTHING ARTWORKS
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    • 2025 MSC Design Lecture Series Sponsorship
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